Virtual desktop

A virtual desktop is a desktop that is using software greater than the indicative screen. Most often this is achieved by several identical desktops between which can switch back and forth by means of a key combination. Virtual desktops are to expand the limited space on a screen, so they get the more used, the smaller the screen ist.Bei Some common implementations such as which can be attributed to the different desktops distribute the window of KDE or GNOME, what the clarity partially increased enormously.

In Apple's Mac OS, the analogous concept of multiple desktops Spaces.